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1878. 






MACGOWAN & SUPPEE, 

Pbentebs, 
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A-^BW YORK P0BL. LIBR, 
IN EXCHANQE. 



CONTENTS. 

PAGE 

Trustees of Columbia College 5 

Historical Sketch of Columbia College 7 

SIA.IVTES OF TSE COJjIjEQJE. 

CHAPTER I. 
Of the President. 16 

CHAPTER II. 
Of the Board of the College 17 

CHAPTER III. 
Of the Course of Study. . . 19 

CHAPTER IV. 
Of Admission 31 

CHAPTER V. 
Of Attendance 23 

CHAPTER VI. 
Of Discipline 24 

CHAPTER VII. 
Of the Proficiency of Students 25 

CHAPTER VIII. 

Of Academic Honors 27 

CHAPTER IX. 
Of Commencements . . 28 

CHAPTER X. 
Of Vacations 30 

CHAPTER XL 
Of the Library 30 

CHAPTER XII. 
Of Free Scholarships 31 

CHAPTER XIII. ■ 
Of Foundations 32 



IV CONTENTS. 

PAGE 
SIATUXM FOR ORGA.NIZIIfG THE SCMOOZ OF MIlfFS. 

CHAPTER I. 
Of the President 34 

CHAPTER 11. 
Of the Faculty of the School of Mines 34 

CHAPTER III. 
Of Admission 35 

CHAPTER IV. 
Of the Course of Study 36 

CHAPTER V. 

Of the Proficiency of Students and of Graduation 38 

CHAPTER VI. 
Of Discipline 39 

CHAPTER VII. 
Of Fees for Tuition 39 

CHAPTER VIII. 
Of Commencement and Degrees 40 

STA.TVTE FOB. OItiiA.NIZING THE SCHOOE OF LAW. 

CHAPTER I. 
Of the President 41 

CHAPTER II. 
Of the Warden 41 

CHAPTER III. 
Of the Faculty 42 

CHAPTER IV. 
Of Admissions . . 43 

CHAPTER V. 

Of the Course of Study 44 

CHAPTER VI. 
Of Degrees , . . 45 

jresoetjtions 

Providing for a School of Medicine 46 



TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE. 



NAMES. RESIDENCES. 

HAMILTON FISH, LL.D., Chairman of the Board 351 East 17tli St. 

SAMUEL B. RUGGLES, LL.D 24 Uaion Square. 

WILLIAM BETTS, LL.D 122 East 30th Street. 

BENJAMIN I. HAIGHT, S. T. D., LL.D 56 West 26tli Street. 

ROBERT RAY 363 West 38tli Street. 

GOUVERNEUR M. OGDEN, Treasurer, 187 Fulton, li. 9 West lOth St. 

EDWARD L. BEADLE, M. D Poughkeepsie. 

MANCIUS S. HUTTON, S. T. D 47 East 9th Street. 

HORATIO POTTER, S. T. D., LL.D., D. C. L. ... 38 East 22d Street. 

LEWIS M. RUTHERFURD 175 Second Avenue. 

JOHN C. JAY, M. D 24 West 48th Street. 

WILLIAM C. SCHERMERHORN 49 Wsst 23d Street. 

MORGAN DIX, S. T. D 27 West 25th Street, 

FREDERICK A. P. BARNARD, S.T.D., LL.D., L.H.D. .College Green. 

SAMUEL BLATCHFORD, LL.D 12 West 22d Street. 

STEPHEN P. NASH. 11 West 19th Street. 

ANTHONY HALSE Y, Clerk 291 Broadway. . 

JOSEPH W. HARPER, Jr 562 Fifth Avenue. 

CORNELIUS R. AGNEW, M. D 266 Madison Avenue. 

EVERT A. DUYCKINCK 30 Clinton Place. 

AARON E. VANDERPOEL 114 East 16th Street. 

CHARLES A. SILLIMAN 263 W. 21st Street. 

FREDERICK A. SCHERMERHORN 61 University Place. 



HISTORICAL SKETCH 



COLUMBIA COLLEGE 



The establishment of a college in the city of New York was 
many years in agitation before the design was carried into 
effect. At length, under an act of Assembly, passed in Decem- 
ber, 174(j, and other similar acts which followed, moneys were 
raised by public lottery "for the encouragement of learning and 
towards the founding a college " within the colony. These 
moneys were, in November, 1751, vested in trustees; of whom, 
ten in number, seven were members of the Church of England, 
and some of these seven were also vestrymen of Trinity Church. 

These circumstances, together with the liberal grant of land 
to the college by Trinity Church, excited apprehensions of a 
design to introduce a church-establishment within the province, 
and caused violent opposition to the plan, as soon as it became 
known, of obtaining a royal charter for the college. 

This opposition, however, being at last in a great measure sur- 
mounted, the trustees in November, 1753, invited Dr. Samuel 
Johnson, of Connecticut, to be President of the intended college. 
Dr. Johnson consequently removed to New York in the month of 
April following, and in July, 1754, commenced the instruction of 
a class of students in a room of the school-house belonging to 
Trinity Church ; but he would not absolutely accept of the Presi- 
dency until after the passing of the charter. This took jolace on 
the 31st of October in the same year, 1754 ; from which period 
the existence of the college is properly to be dated. The gov- 
ernors of the college, named in the charter, are the archbishop 



8 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE. 

of Canterbury, and the first Lord commissioner for trade and 
plantations, both empowered to act by proxies ; the lieutenant- 
governor of the province, and several other public officers; to- 
gether with the rector of Trinitj^ Church, the senior minister of 
the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, the ministers of the 
German Lutheran Church, of the French Church, of the Presby- 
terian Congregation, and the president of the college, all 
ex officio, and twenty-four of the principal gentlemen of the 
city. The college was to be known by the name of King'^s 
College. Previously to the passing of the charter, a parcel of 
ground to the westward of Broadway, bounded by Barclay, 
Church, and Murray streets, and by the Hudson River, had been 
destined by the vestry of Trinity Church as a site for the college 
edifice ; and, accordingly, after the charter was granted, a grant 
of the land was made on the 13th of May, 1755. On a portion 
of this plot, at the foot of Upper Robinson street, as it was 
at first called, but afterwards Park place, the college was subse- 
quently built, and there stood for one hundred and three years, 
until its removal to another site, in 1857, occasioned by the de- 
mands of the business of the city. The part of the land thus 
granted by Trinity Church, not occupied for college purposes, 
was leased, and became a very valuable endowment to the 
college. 

The sources whence the funds of the institution were derived, 
besides the proceeds of the lotteries above mentioned, were the 
voluntary contributions of private individuals in this country, 
and sums obtained by agents who were subsequently sent to 
England and France. In May, 1760, the college buildings began 
to be occupied. In March, 1763, Dr. Johnson resigned his office of 
president, and the Rev. Dr. Myles Cooper, of Oxford, who had 
previously been appointed Professor of Moral Philosophj^^, and 
assistant to the president, was elected in his place. In 1767 a 
grant of land was obtained, under the government of Sir Henry 
Moore, of twenty-four thousand acres, situated in the northern 
parts of the province of New York ; but by the terms of the 
ti-eaty which the State of New York concluded with Vermont 
upon its erection into a separate State, this, among other grants 
of land lying within its limits, was annulled, and the college 



HISTORICAL SKETCH OF COLUJVrBIA COLLEGE. 

consequently lost a tract of great value, inasmuch as it con- 
stituted the county town of the county in which it was situated. 

In August, of the year 1767, a medical school was established 
in the college. 

The following accoiint of the institution, supposed to be writ- 
ten b}^ Dr. Cooper, shows its condition previously to the war of 
the Revolution : 

" Since the passing of the charter, the institution hath received 
great emolument by grants from his most gracious majesty 
King George the Third, and by liberal contributions from many 
of the nobility and gentry in the parent country ; from the so- 
ciety for the propagation of the Gospel in foreign parts, and 
from several j^ublic-spirited gentlemen in America and else- 
where. By means of these and other benefactions the governors 
of the college have been enabled to extend their plan of educa- 
tion almost as diffusely as any college in Europe ; herein being 
taught by proper masters and professors, who are chosen by the 
governors and president, Divinity, Natural Law, Physic, Logic, 
Ethics, Metaphysics, Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, Astron- 
omy, Geography, History, Chronology, Rhetoric, Hebrew, 
Greek, Latin, Modern Languages, the Belles-Lettres, and what- 
ever else of literature may tend to accomplish the pupils as 
scholars and gentlemen. 

"To the college is also annexed a grammar school for the due 
preparation of those who propose to complete their education 
with the arts and sciences. 

" All students but those in medicine are obliged to lodge and 
diet in the college, unless they are particularly exempted by the 
governor or president ; and the edifice is surrounded by a high 
fence, which also encloses a large court and garden, and a porter 
constantly attends at the front gate, which is closed at ten 
o'clock each evening in summer, and nine in winter; after which 
hours, the names of all that come in are delivered weekly to the 
president. 

" The college is situated on a dry gravelly soil, about one 
hundred and fifty yards from the bank of the Hudson River, 
which it overlooks; commanding, from the eminence on which 
it stands, a most extensive and beautiful prospect of the oppo- 



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site shore and country of New Jersey, the city and island of 
New York, Long Island, Staten Island, New York bay and its 
islands, the Narrows, forming the mouth of the harbor, etc., etc. ; 
and being totally unencumbered by any adjacent buildings and 
admitting the purest circulation of air from the river, and 
every other quarter, has the benefit of as agreeable and healthy 
a situation as can j)ossibly be conceived. 

"Visitations by the gOA^ernors are quarterly; at which times 
premiums of books, silver medals, etc., ai'e adjudged to the most 
deserving. 

" This seminary hath already "j^roduced a number of gentle- 
men, who do great honor to their professions, the place of their 
education, and themselves, in divinity, law, medicine, etc., etc., 
in this and various other colonies, both on the American conti- 
nent and West India Islands; and the college is annually in- 
creasing as well in students as reputation." 

In consequence of the dispute between this and the parent 
country. Dr. Cooper returned to England, and the Rev. Benja- 
min Moore was appointed presses pro tempore during the absence 
of Dr. Cooper, who, however, did not return. 

On the breaking out of the Revolutionary War the business 
of the college was almost entirely broken up, and it was not 
until after the return of peace that its affairs were again regu- 
larly attended to. 

In May, 1784, the college, \v^o\\ its own application, was 
erected into a university, and its corporate title changed from 
King's College to that of Regents of the University. New 
professors were appointed and a medical department was es- 
tablished. 

The college continued under that government until April, 
IVS*?, when, finding the attempt to establish a imiversity unsuc- 
cessful, they were restored to their original position under the 
present name of Columbia College. 

The original charter, with necessary alterations, was con- 
firmed, and the college placed under twenty-nine trustees, who 
were to exercise their functions until their number should be re- 
duced, by death, resignation, or removal from the state, to 



HISTOEICAL SKETCH OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE. 11 

twenty-foiii-, after which, all vacancies in their Board were to be 
filled by their own choice. 

At the same time a new body was created, called bj- the same 
name, " The Regents of the University," under which all the 
seminaries of learning mentioned in the act creating it were 
placed by the legislature. This body still exists under its origi- 
nal name. 

In May, 1*787, Dr. Wm. Samuel Johnson, son of the first pres- 
ident, was elected president of Columbia College. During the 
previous vacancy of the presidential chair, the professors had 
presided in turn ; and certificates were given to graduates, in 
place of regular diplomas. 

In the beginning of the year 1792, the medical school was 
placed upon a more respectable and efficient footing than 
before. 

Dr. Johnson resigned the office of president in July, 1800, and 
was succeeded the year following by the Rev. Dr. Wharton, 
who resigned his office at the end of about seven months. 

Bishop Moore succeeded Dr. Wharton as president. His eccle- 
siastical duties were such, that he was not expected to take an 
active part in the business of the college, except on particular 
occasions. The chief management of its concerns devolved upon 
the professors. 

In 1809, the requisites for entrance into college, to take effect 
the following year, were very much raised, and a new course of 
study and system of discipline was es' ablished. 

A new amended charter was obtained from the legislature in 
1810; by which the power of the college to lease its real estate 
for twenty-one years was extended to sixty-three years. 

Bishop Moore resigned his office as President in May, 1811, in 
order to make room for some person who might devote his whole 
time and attention to the college; and in June following, a new 
office, stjded that oi provost, was created. "The 2^'>'ovost was to 
supply the place of the president in his absence, and was to con- 
duct the classical studies of the senior class. Shortly after this 
new arrangement, the Rev. Wm. Harris, and the Rev. John M. 
Mason, were elected president and provost. 

In consequence of the establishment of the College of Physi- 



12 HiStORTCAL SKETCH OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE. 

cians and Surgeons in New York, the Medical School of Colum- 
bia College was in November, 1813, discontinued. 

The provost resigned his office in 1816; since which time 
the college has been imder the sole superintendence of a presi- 
dent. 

In 1814, a grant was made to the college by the legislature, of 
a tract of land on Manhattan Island, of about twenty acres, 
which had been occujDied as a botanic garden by the late Dr. 
Hosack, and had been purchased of him by the state. The grant 
was accompanied by the condition that the college should be re- 
moved to the tract so granted within twelve years. In 1819 
this condition was repealed. At that time the lands were valued 
at two hundred and fifty dollars an acre, or the whole at five 
thousand dollars. These lands, in the present map of the city, 
are embraced between the Fifth and Sixth avenues, and extend 
from Forty-seventh to Fifty-first street. The lapse of half a 
century and the gradual growth of the city, have, of course, 
greatly increased their value. 

In September of 1817, steps were taken by the trustees for a 
thorough repair of the old edifice, which was in a very decayed 
state, and for the erection of additional buildings. Before the 
end of the year 1820, the proj^osed alterations and additions were 
completed. 

At the close of the year 1827, the trustees resolved upon the 
establishment of a grammar school under the superintendence 
of the faculty of the college; which resolution was carried into 
effect early the following year; and, in 1829, a building was 
erected upon the college ground for the accommodation of schol- 
ars. The school was discontinued in 1863. 

In October, of the year 1829, Dr. Harris, the Pi'esident of 
the college, died; and, on the 9th of December following, Wm. 
A. Duer, LL.D., was elected in his room. 

With a view of rendering the benefits of education more 
generally accessible to the community, the system of instruction, 
at the commencement of the year 1830, underwent very exten- 
sive additions and modifications, and the time of daily attend- 
ance upon the professors was materially increased. The 
course of study in existence at the time of making these 



HISTOKICAL SKETCH OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE. 13 

additions was kept entire, and was denominated the fidl 
course. • 

Another course of instruction was established, denominated 
the scientific and literciry course / which latter was open to 
others besides matriculated students, and to such extent as 
they might think proper to attend. 

On a revision of the statutes in the year 1836, both courses of 
study pursued in the college were further enlarged; and the lit- 
erary and scientific course, in particular, defined and materially 
extended. And in order that this course, as well as the scientific 
branches of the full course, might be conducted in the most ef- 
ficient manner, the trustees appi'opriated the sum of ten thou- 
sand dollars for the purchase of additional apparatus, as well as 
for adding to the librarj^ the requisite books of reference and il- 
lustration. , 

The literary and scientific course, however, as distinguished 
from the full course, did not appear to find favor with the public, 
and upon a revision of the statutes, in the year 1843, was dis- 
continued. 

Among other important changes made on this same occasion 
was the adoption of the German language and literature as part 
of the sub-graduate course, and the establishment of the 
Gebhard professorship thereof, upon the endowment made 
by the last will and testament of Frederick Gebhard, 
Esquire. 

In April, 1842, Wm. A. Duer, LL.D., resigned his office of 
president, and in the following month of August, Nathaniel F. 
Moore, LL.D., was elected in his place. President Moore hav- 
ing resigned his office in 1849, Charles King, LL.D., was chosen 
in his place in November of that year. 

In 1854, the subjects of the removal of the college, and the 
expediency of establishing a system of university instruction, 
were considered by the trustees, and the body of professors 
having in view such a system was greatly enlarged. 

In May, 185V, the college was removed from its old position, 
on Park place, to where it now stands, in East Forty-ninth street, 
between Madison and Fourth avenues. 

On the 17th of May, 1858, a department of law was established, 



14 HISTOEICAL SKETCH OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE. 

under the name of " The Law School of Columbia College," and 
a Faculty of law appointed. 

In 1860, by an arrangement with the Regents of the Univer- 
sity, and the sanction of the legislature, a union was effected 
with the College of Physicians and Surgeons, by which that 
institution was adopted as the medical depaitment of the col- 
lege. 

In 1863, the necessary measures were commenced for organiz- 
ing a department of science; and in the following year a Facul- 
ty of the School of Mines was appointed, which school is now in 
successful operation. In this institution instruction is given in 
five regular courses of scientific study, viz.. Mining Engineering, 
Civil Engineering, Metallurgy, Geology and Palaeontology, 
and Analytic and Applied Chemistry. Special students are also 
permitted to receive instruction in any jiarticnlar branches of 
science which they may select. 

In the year 1864, Dr. King resigned the presidency of the 
college, and the Rev. Frederick A. P. Barnard, S. T. D., LL.D., 
sometime Chancellor of the University of Mississippi, was chosen 
to fill his place. 

In 1868, as a mark of respect to the late Professors Moore 
and Anthon, two prizes in Greek, of the respective value of $300 
and 1150, to be competed for by members of the Junior Class, 
by an examination upon an entire play of iEschylus, Sophocles 
or Euripides, not read in the college course, were established by 
the Trustees. 

In 1871, two Fellowships in Literature and Science, open upon 
certain conditions to the graduating class, each of the annual 
value of 1500, to be held for three years, were instituted; 
and, at the same time, six Scholarships in Classics and Mathe- 
matics were established in the Freshman and Sophomore 
Classes, and the like number in the Junior Class, in Latin, in 
Logic and English Literature, in History and Rhetoric, in 
Chemistrjr, in Mechanics, and in Physics. Subsequently this 
scheme was remodelled by dividing the scholarships in the 
Sophomore and Freshman Classes, by adding in the latter class 
a Scholarship in Rhetoric, by transferring from the Junior Class 
to the Sophomore the Scholarship in Chemistry, and adding in 



HISTORICAL SKETCH OF COLUIMBIA COLLEGE. 15 

the Junior Class a Scholarship in Greek, and by so re-arrang- 
ing the whole as to make fourteen instead of twelve, each of 
the annual value of one hundred dollars. 

In 1874, a new building for the School of Mines was erected 
at a cost of 1150,000, and fitted up with every convenience for 
the purposes of the school. 

Columbia College at the present time has a Faculty of Arts, 
a Faculty of Law, a Faculty of Medicine, and a Faculty of 
Mining and General Science, embracing a president and ninety- 
seven professors and other instructors, and in all the departments 
more than thirteen hundred students. 



STATUTES 



COLUMBIA COLLEGE 



CHAPTER I. 



OF THE PEESIDENT. 



§ 1. It shall be the duty of the President to take charge and 
have care of the college generally, of its buildings, of the grounds 
adjacent thereto, and of its movable property upon the same. To 
see that the course of instruction and discij)Iine prescribed by the 
statutes is faithfully pursued, and to prevent and rectify all devi- 
ations from the same. 

To call meetings of the Faculty, and to give such directions 
and perform such acts as shall, in his judgment, promote the in- 
terests of the college, so that they do not contravene the char- 
ter, the statutes, the orders of the Tnistees, or the decisions of 
the Board of the College. 

To visit the class-rooms from time to time, and keep himself 
informed of the manner in which the classes are taught. 

To report to the Trustees annually, at the stated meeting in 
May, and as occasion shall require, the state of the college and 
the measures which may be necessary for its prosperity, and par- 
ticularly the manner in which the several Professors and Tutors 
perform their respective duties. 

§ 2. He shall have power to grant leave of absence from the 
college for a reasonable cause, and for such length of time as he 
shall judge the occasion may require : provided that when such 



OF THE BOARD OF THE COLLEGE. 17 

leave of absence exceeds two days, it be entered upon the min- 
utes of the Board of the College. 

§ 3. He shall preside at commencements and at all meetings 
of the Board, and shall sign all diplomas. 

§ 4. He shall assemble the classes every day except Saturday 
and Sunday, at half -past nine o'clock a. m., for the purpose of 
attending prayers; and at these daily prayers it shall be the 
duty of each of the members of the Board to be present, unless 
bis presence shall be dispensed with by the President. 

§ 5. In the absence or sickness of the President, the Senior 
Professor, who shall be in the regular performance of his duties, 
shall have authority to perform the duties and exercise the au- 
thority of the President. 



CHAPTER II. 

OF THE BOAKD OF THE COLLEGE. 

§ 1. The President and the Professors engaged in the sub- 
graduate course of instruction shall constitute the Board of the 
College. Professors of modern languages shall have seats at the 
Board only when the conduct or proficiency of students in their 
respective departments shall be in question, and tli^y may be 
heard and vote thereon. Tutors shall have seats at the Board 
on all occasions when the conduct or proficiency of the students 
under their charge, in the departments in Avhich the)^ respectively 
give instruction, shall be in question, but on no other occasion ; 
but they shall have no vote. 

§ 2. The Professors shall take precedence according to the 
date of their appointments. 



18 OF THE BOARD OF THE COLLEGE. 

§ 3. It shall be the dvity of the Professors and Tutors to as- 
sist the President with their counsel and co-operation. 

§ 4. The Board shall have power : 

To try offences committed by the students ; 

To determine their relative standing ; 

To adjudge rewards and punishments, and to make all such 
regulations of their own proceedings and for the better execu- 
tion of the college system, as shall not contravene the charter of 
the college, nor the statutes, nor any order of the Trustees. 

§ 5. The concurrence of the President shall be necessary to 
every act of the Board; and in case the Board shall be equally 
divided, the President shall have a casting vote in addition to 
his vote as a member of the Board. 

§ 6. In case of the absence of the President, the Senior Pro- 
fessor present shall preside at the meeting of the Board, and all 
acts of the Board thus constituted shall be valid unless the Presi- 
dent shall, at the next subsequent stated meeting at which he 
shall be present, express his dissent, either personally or in 
writing. 

§ 7. Upon any resolution, duly seconded, a vote shall be taken 
if desired by the mover. When the President dissents from the 
vote of the majority of the Board, such vote and such dissent 
shall be recorded in the minutes. 

§ 8. The Board shall meet for the purpose of administering 
the general discipline of the college once in each week, except in 
vacation. At these meetings the Professors shall report concern- 
ing the conduct and proficiency of the members of the respective 
classes, noting particularly those who have been delinquent in 
their behavior or attendance, or deficient or negligent in their 
recitations, with the number of their absences. 



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§ 9. The Board shall keep minutes of their proceedings, and 
shall appoint one of their own number to perform that dntj. 

§ 10. In those minutes shall be noted the names of the mem- 
bers present and absent at each meeting. It shall be the duty 
of the President to cause such minutes to be laid before the 
Trustees at their meetings. 

§ 11. No member of the Board of the College, or of the 
Faculty of the School of Mines, and no other officer engaged in 
instruction shall be employed in any occupation which shall in- 
terfere with the thorough, efficient and earnest performance of 
the duties of his office. 



CHAPTER III. 



OF THE COURSE OF STUDY, 



§ 1. There shall be four classes of undergraduate students in 
College, to be called the Freshman Class, the Sophomore Class, 
the Junior Class, and the Senior Class. The course of study of 
each of these classes shall occupy a year, and the entire course 
four years. 

§ 2. The Freshman Class shall be instructed in the Latin and 
Greek Languages, Grecian History and Roman Antiquities, 
Rhetoric, and the more elementary branches of the Pure Mathe- 
matics. 

§ 3. The Sophomore Class shall be instructed in the Latin and 
Greek Languages, Roman History and Grecian Antiquities, 
Modern History, English Literature, Chemistry, and the remain- 
ing branches of Pure Mathematics usually taught in colleges, 
except Analytical Geometry and the Differential and Integral 
Calculus. 



20 OF THE COUESE OF STUDY. 

§ 4, The Junior Class shall be instructed in the Latin and 
Greek Languages, History of Literature, Logic, ^stheti<3S, 
Modern History, Analytical Geometry, Mechanics, and Physics. 

§ 5. During the Senior year, instruction shall be given in 
Astronomy, Physics, Political Economy, Constitutional Govern- 
ment, Geology and Mineralogy, the Latin» and Greek Languages 
and Literature, History of Philosophy, Psychology, Chemistrj^, 
and the Differential and Integral Calculus. 

§ 6. In each of the four years the student shall be exercised 
in English Composition, and during the first three years in Latin 
and Greek Composition also, and in Elocution. 

§ 7. Instruction shall be given to students who may desire it, 
in the German Language and its Literature, and in such other 
modern Languages as the Board of Trustees may see fit to 
direct. 



§ 8. A plan of the course, specifying more in detail the stud- 
ies to be pursued in each year and in each of the departments of 
instruction, shall be prepared by the Board of the College, sub- 
ject to the approval of the Boai'd of Trustees; and this plan, 
after having been so approved, shall be published in every annu- 
al catalogue of the college. 

§ 9. The Trustees shall assign to each Professor or other in- 
structor such proportion of the time of the classes as may seem 
to them judicious; and the Faculty shall prepare, in conformity 
with this allotment, such a scheme of daily instruction as shall 
appear to be best adapted to promote the advancement of the 
students in their various studies. 



§ 10. The text-books to he used by the classes may be selected 
by the Professors in their several departments, with the approval 



OP ADMISSION. 21 

of the President, and with the reserved right of control by the 
Board of Trustees. 

§ 11. The hours of insti'uction at the college shall be the four 
in each day which immediately follow the morning exercises of 
the chapel, or so many of them, not less than three, as it may 
be found practicable to employ, and such other hours as the 
Trustees may at any time hereafter assign; and during those 
hours, the classes severally, or their several sections, shall attend 
such instructors as • shall be prescribed in the scheme of daily 
instruction, or as the Board of the College may direct, and in the 
order which may be so determined. 

§ 12. No Professor or other officer of the college shall excuse 
a class or section from assembling at the time and place ap- 
pointed for lecture or recitation, or dismiss a class or section 
after it may have assembled before "the expiration of the 
time allotted to the exercise, without the consent of the Presi- 
dent; nor, without such consent, shall any class or section be 
excused from the jjerformance of any exercise required of them 
by law; but individual students may, for satisfactory reasons, 
be excused from such performance, by the officers to whom they 
are due. 



CHAPTER IV. 



OF ADMISSION, 



§ 1. As a general rule, no student shall be admitted to the 
Freshman Class, at its formation, unless he shall have attained 
the age of fifteen years; nor shall any one be admitted 
to a more advanced standing without a corresponding increase 
of age; but this rule maj^ be dispensed with where, in the 
opinion of the Faculty, there are sufficient reasons to justify its 
relaxation. 



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§ 2. Every applicant for admission to the Freshman Class shall 
be examined in the English, Latin, and Greek Grammars, Latin 
Prosody and Composition, Ancient and Modern Geography, 
Arithmetic, and so much of Algebra and Geometry, and such 
authors in Greek and Latin, as the Board of the College may 
prescribe. All the requisitions for admission shall be annually 
published in the college catalogue, and the Board of the College 
shall have power, from time to time, with the concurrence of 
the Trustees, to modify these requisitions as the exigencies of 
the college may seem to require. 

§ 3. No candidate shall be admitted to an advanced standing 
xmtil he shall have i^assed a satisfactory examination upon the 
studies which have been pursued by the class for which he ap- 
plies, as well as upon those enumerated in the foregoing section; 
nor, in case he shall have been previously a member of another 
college, without a certificate from such college of his discharge 
in good standing. 

§ 4. Every student admitted to the college will be required 
immediately upon his admission, and subsequently, at the begin- 
ning of each succeeding academical year, to write in the matric- 
ulation book of the college his own name, and the name, place, 
of abode, and post-office of his father or guardian. 

§ 5. None but matriculated students or graduates of the 
college shall be allowed to attend the classes without the special 
permission of the Board of Trustees. 

§ 6. Tuition fees shall be paid on matriculation, unless the 
time be extended by the President and Treasurer. 

§ 7. An honorable discharge shall always be granted to any 
student in good standing, who may desire to withdraw from the 
college; but no undergraduate student shall be entitled to a dis- 
charge without the assent of his parent or guardian, given in 
writing to the President. 



OP ATTENDANCE. 23 

§ 8. So soon as a student shall have been admitted to the 
college, he shall be presented with a copy of these statutes, and 
of any printed rules or by-laws made under them for the 
government of the students by the Board of the College; and 
another copy of the same shall be sent or delivered to his parent 
or ffuardian. 



CHAPTER V. 



OF ATTENDANCE, 



§ 1. The attendance of the students upon aU college exer- 
cises shall be obligatory, and shall be enforced by the Board of 
the College under suitable penalties. 

§ 2. Every Professor shall cause an exact roll to be kept of 
each class under his instruction, and daily report shall be made 
to the President of such students as may be absent or late in at- 
tendance. 

' § 3. Tardiness of attendance shall be estimated as equivalent 
to half an absence. 

§ 4. A student who shall have been absent from more than 
one-quarter of the total number of exercises in any department, 
shall not be entitled to examination in that department. 

§ 5. Every parent or guardian of a student shall be furnished 
monthly with a statement of the attendance of said student. 



24 OF DISCIPLINE. 



CHAPTER VI. 



OP DISCIPLINE, 



§ 1. Cases of misconduct on the part of students shall be 
referred in the first instance to the President. 

§ 2. Any member of the Faculty may summon a student to 
appear before the Board of the College, and in such case he shall 
immediately report the facts of the case to the President. 

§ 3. In case any member of a class under instruction disturb 
the class exercises, the Professor may require such student to 
leave the room; and the student shall thereupon forthwith re- 
port himself to the President. 

§ 4. All sentences of the Board adjudging punishments shall 
be reduced to writing before they are pronounced, and the stu- 
dents whom they aifect shall be cited to hear the same read in 
the presence of the Board alone. 

§ 5. If it appear to the Board that the members of a class, 
or any number of them, have entered into a combination to 
avoid collegiate duties, or to violate any of the statutes, or any 
regulation of the Board, any one or more of those embraced in 
such combination may be proceeded against separately. 

§ 6. No student shall be a member of any professional school 
during his academic course. 



OF THE PROFICIENCY OF STUDENTS. 25 



CHAPTER VII. 

OF THE PROFICIENCY OF STUDENTS. 

§ 1. Each Professor or other instructor shall make to the 
President a monthly report of the names of such students as 
ma J' be deficient in his department; and shall also report daily 
those who may have been unprepared to recite, or who may 
have made absolute failure in attempting to recite. The Presi- 
dent shall immediately notify each student reported as deficient, 
of the fact of such report. 

By deficiency, is here meant such a degree of imperfection in 
attainment as is likely, if not removed, to prevent the recom- 
mendation of the student for his degi'ee, at the close of the 
academic course. 

§ 2. Each Professor, or other instructor, shall report to the 
President, at the end of every month, a numerical scale of the 
standing of all the students under his instruction, according to 
a standard prescribed by the Board of the College — the order of 
merit to be determined by examination conducted in any manner 
which the Professor may choose. 

§ 3. Besides the monthly examinations provided for in the 
foregoing section, there shall be two public examinations of all 
the classes every year — the one to commence on the last Mon- 
day in January, and the other on the Monday of the third week 
preceding Commencement ; which examinations shall severally 
extend to all the studies pursued during the session immediately 
preceding. Each of these examinations shall have a weight in 
the determination of scholarship equal to that of all the monthly 
examinations of the term. The Senior Class may be excused 
from attendance at College during the week preceding their 
final examination. 

§ 4. The Board of the College shall prescribe such rules as 
may be necessary to make the examinations a true and impartial 



26 OF THE PEOFICIEKCf OF STUDENTS. 

test of the attainments of the students ; and any one who shall 
be found to have willfully violated these rules, or any of thera, 
shall be liable to be dropped from the roll of the College. 

§ 5. The sum total of all the valuations assigned to the per- 
formances of each student in any department, in the monthly 
and semi-annual reports, estimated as above, shall be taken to 
express the value of the student's scholarship in said depart- 
ment. These results shall only be used to ascertain the stu- 
dent's proficiency, and shall not be made public ; but the Presi- 
dent may give to the parent or guardian of any student the par- 
ticulars embraced in them, so far as that student is concerned. 

§ 6. Any student who shall be found deficient in the same 
department in more than one monthly report, may be required 
to study with a private tutor the subjects in which he is deficient, 
and to pass a rigorous examination on the same, at a time 
to be appointed by the Board of the College, or shall no longer 
be permitted to be a candidate for a degree. 

§ 7. No student who, after the close of the first session of the 
Senior year, shall be found not to have made good all the deficien- 
cies which may have been recorded against him in the previous 
years, shall be any longer a candidate for a degree in Arts, unless 
reasons shall appear, satisfactory to the Board of the College, 
to account for his failure. 

§ 8. Every student, whose record of scholarship shall be 
found at the close of the academic course to be fair, shall be en- 
titled to be recommended to the Board of Trustees for the de- 
gree of Bachelor of Arts. If there be any one against whom 
there shall appear a record of deficiency not subsequently made 
good, in regard to which the Board of the College are satisfied 
that there has been no culpable neglect of duty, such student 
may, in the discretion of the Board, be recommended for a de- 
gree speciali gratia • and every student who may fail of such 



OF ACADEMIC HONORS, 27 

recommendation shall be entitled to a certificate stating the du- 
ration of his attendance and the degree of his attainment. 

§ 9. Previously to each public examination, notice shall be 
given in two of the daily papers published in the city, of the 
time when the examination is to commence; and the Regents of 
the University, the Trustees of the college, the parents and 
guardians of students, and such other persons as the President 
may think proper so to distinguish, shall be invited to attend. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



OF ACADEMIC HOSTOES. 



§ 1. At the close of the Senior year the results of all the 
monthly, intermediate and concluding examinations of all the 
four years shall be combined, by adding together the valuations 
assigned to the performances of each student severally in such 
examinations ; and upon the basis of the totals thus ascertained, 
all academic honors shall be awarded. 

§ 2. The Board of the College shall determine what propor- 
tion of the maximum of values obtainable shall entitle a student 
to be included in the honor list. All those students whose to- 
tals amount to, or exceed, the proportion thus determined, 
shall be divided into three groups, to be styled the first, the sec- 
ond, and the third classes of honor ; and the Board shall pre- 
scribe the proportion which shall entitle a student to be enrolled 
in these classes severally. 

§ 3. In the allotment of parts in the literary exercises of the 
Commencement, preference shall alwaj's be given to those 
members of the graduating class whose names are included 
in the honor list, and if the number of these shall be suflicient 
no others shall be selected. 



28 OF COMMENCEMENTS. 



CHAPTER IX. 



OF COMMENCE ME^^^TS. 



§ 1. There shall be an Annual Commencement on the second 
Wednesday in June, when academical degrees shall be conferred, 
and orations shall be delivered hj members of the graduating 
class, who shall have been selected after the final examination by 
the Board of the College, with reference to their standing in the 
class, and their capacity to acquit themselves creditably at the 
Commencement, viz.: 

One Greek salutator}'^ and oration or poem; 

One Latin oration or poem; 

Two English orations by members of the graduating class 

of the School of Mines ; 
Two English orations by members of the graduating class 

of the College; 
And a Valedictory. 

But a poem in English, or a German oration, may be substi- 
tuted for either of the English orations. 

§ 2. The English orations provided for in the foregoing sec- 
tion shall be prepared under the following general regulation: - 

Members of every Senior class shall be required, as a condition 
of graduation, to prepare and present to the President, and in 
conformity with the directions which he may jarescribe, on or 
before the first day of May in the Senior year, a written essay, 
dissertation, oration, or poem suitable to be pronounced before 
a public audience; and after the speakers shall have been se- 
lected for Commencement, such speakers shall be allowed to 
deliver in public, on Commencement day, the compositions 
prepared as above directed, except such as may have speeches 



COMMENCEMENTS. 29 

assigned them in languages other than the English, or shall be 
duly appointed to deliver salutatory or valedictory addresses. 

§ 3, All such orations shall be subject to criticism by the 
President ; and the student who shall refuse or neglect to adopt 
the corrections and amendments pointed out to him, or who 
shall deliver his oration or exercise otherwise than is approved 
by the President, shall not receive his degree. 

§ 4. Any student neglecting or refusing to perform the part 
assigned to him, shall not receive his degree. 

§ 5. No alumnus of this college shall receive the degree of 
Master of Arts in less than three years after the date of his 
first diploma ; nor then, unless he shall have made such literary 
progress as, in the judgment of the Board, shall entitle him 
thereto.* The President may assign to one or more of the 
alumni of the college who may apply for a degree of Master of 
Arts, such orations or exercises as he may deem expedient ; which 
orations or exercises shall be delivered the last in the order of 
the day, the valedictory oration excepted ; but no oration or 
exercise shall be delivered unless approved by the President. 

§ 6. No person of immoral character shall be admitted to 
the honors of this college. 

§ 7. Each candidate for the degree of Bachelor or Master 
of Arts shall, before the same is conferred, discharge all his 
liabilities to the college, and also pay the fee prescribed for his 
diploma. 

§ 8. A committee of the Trustees, to be annually appointed 
for that purpose, shall, together with the President, make all 
further requisite ai'rangements for the annual commencements. 

^ The following resolution was adopted by the Board of Trustees, April 15, 1878 : 

" Besolved, that after the annual commencement of June, 1880, the degree of 
Master of Arts, in course, shall not be conferred except upon Bachelors of Arts, of 
this College, of three years' standing or more, who shall have passed an approved 
examination, upon studies to be prescribed by the Faculty, with the approval of the 
Trustees ; such examination to be held at some convenient time within the month 
nest preceding each annual commencement." 



30 OF VACATIONS AND THE LIBRARY. 



CHAPTER X. 

OF VACATIONS. 

§ 1. There shall be a vacation of all the classes, from the 
second Wednesday in June until the Saturday preceding the 
first Monday in October, on which latter day the regular course 
of study shall commence. 

§ 2. There shall be an intermission of the public lectures on 
Ash- Wednesday, Good-Friday, Easter-Monday, and on such 
days in each year as may be recommended by the civil authori- 
ty to be observed as days of fast or thanksgiving : and two 
weeks, commencing with the fourth Monday in December, un- 
less the fourth Monday shall fall later than the twenty-sixth day 
of the month, and in that case commencing with the third 
Monday. 

§ 3. The President may, in extraordinarj' cases, grant an in- 
termission for other days, not exceeding one day at any one 
time ; and it shall be his dutj' always to report the same at the 
next succeeding meeting of the Trustees, together with the ob- 
ject and reason for granting such intermission. 



CHAPTER XI. 



OF THB LIBRARY 



§ 1. It shall be the duty of the Librarian to take special 
care and charge of the books and other property of the library 
in conformity with such regulations as the Board of Trustees 
or the library committee shall adopt ; and, in general, to see 
that the regulations are faithfully observed. He shall report in 
writing to the library committee, without delay, all infractions 
of the rules. 



OF FREE SCHOLARSHIPS. 31 

§ 2. The Trustees and officers of the College, the students of 
the College and of the School of Mines, and graduates of the 
college residmg in the city as may be authorized for the current 
year in writing by the President, and such other persons as may 
be invested with the privilege by the library committee, shall 
have access to the college library, and be permitted to take 
books therefrom, in conformity with such regulations as may be 
duly established by the Board of Trustees or its library com- 
mittee. 

§ 3. The Librarian shall, annuallj', on the third Tuesday in 
June, lay before the President and the library committee a writ- 
ten statement, in duplicate, of the condition of the library, to- 
gether with the names of those who on that day retain books or 
other property" of the library, as also the names of those who 
are in any way in default as regards the library. 

§ 4. No officer or student of the college, or other persons, 
shall take from the library any book or periodical, unless in 
conformity with the regulations, and in the presence of the 
Librarian, or his assistant duly appointed, who shall at the time 
enter the title of such book or periodical, the name of the 
person taking it, and the date, in a register provided for that 
purpose. 

§ 5. No books shall be taken from the library during the in- 
terval between the third Tuesday of June and the end of the 
summer vacation, except such as may be taken by members of 
the Board of the College, in conformity with the regulations. 



CHAPTER XII. 



OF FREE SCHOLARSHIPS, 



§ 1. The Alumni Association of Columbia College shall be 
entitled to have always, in the undergraduate department, four 
students, to be instructed free of charge. 



32 OF FOUNDATIONS. 

§ 2. The Society for promoting religion and learning m the 
State of New York shall be entitled to have always, in the un- 
dergraduate department, two students in each class, to be in- 
structed free of charge. 

§ 3. The members of the Board of the College, and the Pro- 
fessors of the School of Mines and of the Law School, shall be 
entitled to have their sons educated, free of charge, in the un- 
dergraduate department, in the School of Mines, or in the Law 
School. 

§ 4. The above privileges are subject to the regulations of 
the Trustees in regard to free tuition. 

§ 5. All free scholarships, except those granted under this 
statute and those acquired under the present or former statutes 
of this college, bj' the endowment of such scholarships, are 
abolished. 



CHAPTER XIII. 



OF FOUNDATIONS 



§ 1. Any person or persons who may found a scholarship by 
the payment of not less than two thousand dollars to the Treas- 
urer of the college, shall be entitled to have always one student 
educated in the college free of all charges for tuition. This 
right may be transferred to others. The scholarship shall bear 
such name as the founder or founders may designate. 

§ 2. Any person or persons who shall endow a professorship 
in the classics, in political, mathematical, or physical science, or 
in the literature of any of the ancient or modern languages, by 
the payment of not less than one hundred thousand dollars to 
the Treasurer of the college, shall forever have the right of 
nominating a Professor for the same, subject to the approbation 



OF FOUKDATIONS. 33 

of the Board of Trustees, avIio shall hold his office by the same 
tenure as the other professors of the college; — the nomination 
to be made by the person or persons who shall make endowment, 
or such person or persons as he or they may designate. The 
proceeds of the endowment shall be appropriated to the salary 
of the Professor, 



STATUTE 



FOR ORGANIZING 



THE SCHOOL OF MINES 

(As Amended February 5, and June 4, 1877.) 



CHAPTER I. 



OF THE PEESIDEKT, 



The President of the College is the President of the Faculty 
of the School of Mines. He shall preside at the meetings, when 
present, and shall sign all diplomas for degrees duly conferred. 



CHAPTER n. 



OF THE FACULTY OF THE SCHOOL OF MIKES. 

§ 1. The Faculty of the School of Mines shall consist of the 
President, and ths Professors engaged in the subgraduate course 
of instruction. 

§ 2. The instruction shall be conducted by the above Pro- 
fessors, and such assistants and lecturers as have been or may 
hereafter be appointed under the authority of the Trustees. 

§ 3. The Faculty shall have power to make such regulations 
for the management of the School of Mines as shall not con- 
travene the charter of the college, nor the statutes, nor any 
order of the Trustees. 



OP ADMISSION". 35 

§ 4. The concurrence of the President shall be necessary to 
every act of the Faculty. 

§ 5. The Faculty shall be authorized to elect a Dean from 
among their own number, who shall be charged with such duties 
as the President may delegate to him. 

§ 6. In case of the absence of the President, the senior Pro- 
fessor present shall preside at the meetings of the Board ; but 
no act of the Board thus constituted shall be valid, until ap- 
proved by the President. 

§ 7. The Board shall hold stated meetings at least once a 
month during term-time, and shall keep a book of minutes of 
its proceedings, to be submitted by the President to the Trus- 
tees at their meetings. 



CHAPTER III. 



OF ABMISSIOIf. 



§ 1. Candidates for admission to the First Class, at its for- 
mation, must be of the age of seventeen years, complete ; and, 
for admission to advanced standing, there will be required a 
corresponding increase of age ; but this rule may be dispensed 
with in cases of unusual proficiency on the part of applicants, 
or for other reasons of weight. 

§ 2. The requisitions for admission shall be prescribed by 
the Faculty of the School, subject to the approval of the Board 
of Trustees ; and all the requisitions for admission shall be an- 
nually published in the catalogue or register of the School. 

§ 3. ISTo candidate shall be admitted to advanced standing 
until he shall have passed a satisfactory examination upon the 
studies which have been pursued by the class for which he ap- 
plies ; but graduates and students of colleges and schools of 



36 OF THE COURSE OF STUDY. 

science, who shall have completed so much of the coiirse of 
study as shall be equivalent to the requirements for admission 
to the School, may be admitted at the beginning of the second 
year, or earlier, without examination, on presenting diplomas 
or certificates of good standing and honorable dismissal, satis- 
factory to the examining officers. 

§ 4. Special students, that is, students not candidates for 
graduation, may be admitted, but only by vote of the Faculty, 
for reasons of weight. No such applicant will be admitted 
unless of the full age of eighteen years or upward, nor without 
passing such examinations as are required of the regular 
students for admission to the course proposed. 

§ 5. None but students regularly entered as members of the 
School shall be allowed to attend the classes without permission 
of the Board of Trustees. 

§ 6. Tuition fees must be paid at entrance, and subsequently 
at the beginning of each session, before the student takes his 
place in his class, unless the time of payment be extended by 
the President and Treasurer. 



CHAPTER IV. 

OF THE COUESB OF STUDY. 

§ 1. There shall be four classes of students in the School, to 
be distinguished as the First, Second, Third and Fourth Classes. 
The course of study of each of these classes shall occui^y a 
year ; and the entire course, four years. 

§ 2. During the First . year, instruction shall be given in 
Geometry, Algebra, Trigonometry, and Mensuration ; in Ele- 
mentary Physics ; in Chemistry, Inorganic and Organic ; in 
Botany, in French, in German, and in Drawing. 



or THE COURSE OF STUDY. 37 

§ 3. Instruction in the Second year shall compi'ise Analyti- 
cal Geometry, Calculus, Descriptive Geometry, Shades, Shad- 
ows, and Perspective ; Surveying, Theoretical Chemistry, 
Qualitative Analysis, Stoichiometry ; Determinative Mineral- 
ogy, Qualitative Blow-pipe Analysis, and Crystallography ; 
Zoology, French and German, 

§ 4. In the Third year instruction shall be given in Me- 
chanics, Quantitative Analysis, Mineralogy, and Quantitative 
Blow-pipe Analysis ; in the Principles of Engineering, and 
their applications to works of Civil and Mining Engineering ; 
in Mathematical Physics ; in Applied Chemistry ; in Metal- 
lurgy, Geology and Surveying. 

§ 5. In the Fourth year instruction shall embrace the Prin- 
ciples, Construction and Management of Machines and Engines ; 
Mining and Civil Engineering ; Applied Chemistry ; Economic 
Geology ; Geodesy and Surveying ; Practical Mining ; Ore 
Dressing and Assaying. 

§ 6. The subjects of study enumerated in the foregoing 
sections shall be so grouped as to form five independent 
courses of instruction, viz., a Course in Civil Engineering, a 
Course in Mining Engineering, a Course in Metallurgy, a 
Course in Geology and Palaeontology, and a Course in 
Analytical and Applied Chemistrj^ During the first session 
of the First Year, the instruction given to all the students of 
that year shall be identically the same ; at the beginning of 
the second session, each student shall elect which of the five 
courses above mentioned he intends to pursue, and after 
having made his election, he shall not be permitted to aban- 
don the course chosen in order to take u]) another, or to be- 
come a special student, without the consent of the Faculty, 
to be given only for reasons of weight. 

§ 7. In all studies which are common to two or more 
courses of instruction, the students electing those courses 
may be instructed in common ; but no student shall be a 
candidate for two different degrees at the same time. 



38 OF THE PROFICIENCY OP STUDENTS. 

§ 8. In each of the four years, students shall be required 
to practice in Drawing and in Chemical Analysis as the 
exigencies of the course they are pursuing may require, and 
in the Second, Third and Fourth years they shall be similarly 
practiced in surveying in the open air, when the weather and 
their other scholastic engagements will allow. During the 
vacation following the close of the Third year, students of 
Mining Engineering shall engage in actual work in mines, 
under the superintendence of the Adjunct Professor of Survey- 
ing and Practical Mining. 

§. 9. A plan of the several courses, specifying more in de- 
tail the studies to be pursued in each year, and in each de- 
partment of instruction, shall be established by resolution of 
the Board of Trustees, and published in every annual cata- 
logue or register of the School. 



CHAPTER V. 

OF THE PROFICIENCY OF STUDENTS AND OF GRADUATION. 

§ 1. Every Professor shall report to the Dean of the School, 
at the end of every month, a numerical scale of standing in 
scholarship of all the students under his instruction, according 
to a standard prescribed by the Faculty, the order of merit to 
be determined by examination. 

§ 2. The Faculty may prescribe such rules as may be neces- 
sary to make the examinations a true and impartial test of the 
attainments of the students; and any one who shall be found to 
have wilfully violated these rules, or any part of them, shall be 
liable to be droi:)ped from the roll of the School. 

§ 3. Any student who, upon examination in any subject, 
shall have been pronounced deficient, shall be required to study 
the same subjects again, and to pass, at a time appointed bj^ the 
Faculty, a satisfactory examination on the same, failing in 
which, he shall cease to be a candidate for a degree. 



OF DISCIPLINE AND FEES FOB TUITION. 39 



CHAPTER VI. 

OF DISCIPLINE. 

§ 1. In case of misconduct in a student, unless the offence be 
so flagrant as in the judgment of the Professor to require the 
interference of the Faculty, the Professor shall admonish the 
offender, either privately or publicly, and, upon failure of suc- 
cess, may, in his discretion, bring the subject before the Fac- 
ulty of the School. 

§ 2. The punishment of dismission shall be inflicted only by 
an act of the Faculty. 

§ 3. A student whom it may be necessary to bring before the 
Faculty shall have due notice of the time and place of their 
meeting, and shall be allowed to defend himself. 

§ 4. If injury be done to the buildings or other property of 
the college, or any jiroj^erty used by the School of Mines, by 
any student, the Faculty shall have power to impose a pecuniary 
mulct to the extent of the damage; and, unless such mulct be 
paid, the offending student shall be punished in the discretion 
of the Faculty. 



CHAPTER VII. 



OF FEES FOK TUITION, 



The fees of the School shall be paid into the treasury of the 
college. 



40 OF COMMENCEMENT AND DEGREES. 



CHAPTER VIII. 

OF COMMENCEMENT AND DEGREES. 

§ 1. At the annual Commencement, established by Chapter 
IX,, § 1, of the Statutes of the College, degrees shall be con- 
ferred on the students of the School who may be entitled to 
receive them, and such students shall be required to attend at 
the Commencement for that purpose. 

§ 2. Among the public exercises of the Commencement 
there shall be two orations by members of the gi*aduating class 
of the School, who shall have been selected by the Faculty of 
the School for their merit and their capacity to acquit them- 
selves creditably in the performance of such exercise. 



STATUTE 



FOR ORGANIZING 



THE SCHOOL OF LAW 

(As Amended February 7, 1876, and April 15, 1878.) 



CHAPTER I. 



or THE PRESIDENT, 



The President of the college is the President of the Faculty 
of Law. He shall preside at its meetings, when present, and 
shall sign all diplomas for degrees duly conferred. 



CHAPTER II. 



OF THE WARDEN. 



§ 1. It shall be the duty of the Warden to take charge and 
care of the building or buildings occupied by the Law School, 
and of the property therein contained ; to see that the course 
of instruction prescribed is faithfully pursued, and due discipline 
observed ; to keep himself informed of the manner and efficiency 
of instruction in the several departments ; to call special meet- 
ings of the Faculty, and to give such directions and perform 
such acts as shall in his judgment promote the interests of the 
school, so that they do not contravene the charter, the statutes, 
the orders of the Trustees, or the decisions of the Faculty of the 
school ; to give to the President of the College or to the Com- 



42 OF THE FACULTY. 

mittee on the School of Law, from time to time, any informa- 
tion which he or they may require, as to the condition or admin- 
istration of the school, or as to the manner or efficiency of the 
instruction, or the performance of the duty of any of its 
officers ; to rejjort to the Trustees annually, at the stated meet- 
ing in October, and as occasion shall require, the state of the 
school, and the measures which may be necessary for its pros- 
perity, and particularly the manner in which the several profess- 
ors perform their respective duties. 

§ 2. He shall have power to grant leave of absence to stu- 
dents for such length of time as 'he shall judge the occasion 
may require. 

§ 3. He shall pi'eside, in the absence of the President of the 
College, at Commencements of the Law School, and shall sign 
all diplomas for degrees duly conferred. 



CHAPTER ni. 

OF THE FACULTY. 

§ 1. The Faculty shall be constituted of the President of 
the College, the Warden, and the , Professors of the school. 
They shall meet statedly once a month durijig the annual term. 
They shall keep a book of minutes of their proceedings, to be 
submitted to the Trustees of the College at their regular meet- 
ings, and to the Committee on the School of Law, when called 
for by them. The President, or, in his absence, the Warden, 
or, in the absence of both, the Senior Professor present shall 
preside. 

§ 2. The Faculty shall have power to act upon all cases 
of discipline in their discretion, with power to admonish, 
suspend, dismiss or expel students, if such cases are brought 
before them by the Warden ; to admit students who are grad- 
uates of some college upon certificates of the college authori- 
ties, and those who are not graduates upon the report of the 
examiners. 



OF ADMISSIONS. 43 

§ 3. No act of the Faculty shall be valid, if disapproved by 
the President, if present, or by the Warden, such disapproval 
to be noted on its minutes. 



CHAPTER IV. 



OF ADMISSIOIS^S. 



§ 1. All graduates of literary colleges will be admitted with- 
out examination. Other candidates for admission must be at 
least eighteen years of age, and have received a good aca- 
demic education, including such a knowledge of the Latin 
language as is required for admission to the Freshman class of 
this college. 

§ 2. Candidates for admission, not graduates of literary 
colleges, are required to pass an examination in the outlines of 
Greek and Roman history, historj^ of England and the United 
States (of North America) ; English Grammar, Rhetoric, and 
the principles of Composition ; m Caesar's Gallic War (entire), 
six Books of Virgil's ^Eneid, and six Orations of Cicero, or 
other Latin authors deemed by the examiners to be equivalent 
to the above. 

§ 3. Such examination shall be conducted by three examin- 
ers, Alumni of the college, to be appointed by the Committee 
on the School of Law. 

§ 4. The examinations shall begin in the Law School build- 
ing on the Saturday next preceding the first Wednesday in 
October, and shall be oral and in writing. 

§ 5. Students who are not candidates for a degree, may be 
admitted to the Law School without a preliminary examination 
in Latin, provided that none such shall be admitted to the 
inconvenience or overcrowding of the lecture-rooms. 



44 OF THE COUKSE OP STUDY. 

§ 6, Students being candidates for a degree, who are well 
grounded in the principles of the Latin language, but who have 
not read the entire amount required by Section 2 of this chap- 
ter, may be admitted to the Law School, at the discretion of 
the Faculty, conditionally, as candidates for a degree. If such 
deficiency is not made up in one year, they may be allowed to 
join the next Junior Class upon new conditions ; but they shall 
not be allowed to proceed with the Senior Class. 



CHAPTER V. 



ON THE COURSE OF STUDY. 

§ 1. There shall be two classes of undergraduate students in 
the Law School, to be called respectively the Senior and Junior 
Class. The course of study of each of these classes shall 
occupy a year, and the entire course two years. 

§ 2. The annual term in the Law School shall commence on 
the first Wednesday in October in each and every year, and 
shall close on that Wednesday in May which is nearest to the 
fifteenth day of the month. This annual term shall constitute 
the collegiate year. 

§ 3. A plan of the course, specifying in detail the studies to 
be pursued in each year and in each of the departments of 
instruction, shall from time to time be prepared by the Faculty 
of the Law School, subject to the approval of the Committee on 
the School of Law : and this plan, after having been so 
approved, shall be published in every annual catalogue of the 
Law School. 

§ 4. The Warden, in consultation with the Faculty, shall 
have power to arrange the hours for lectures and recitations, as 
well as to select the text-books for the use of the students. 

LfyfC. 



OP DEGREES. 45 

§ 5. Moot Courts shall be held under the direction of the 
Faculty, at such times as they may deem proper. The mode of 
proceeding and the assignment of students to take part in the 
discussions shall be under the direction of the Warden. 



CHAPTER VI. 



OF DEGREES 



§ 1. Every student who shall pass an ajjproved examination 
upon the required studies of the course shall be entitled to be 
recommended to the Board of Trustees for the degree of Bach- 
elor of LaAvs. Should the student not have attained the age of 
twenty-one years at the time of graduating, the delivery of the 
diploma shall be deferred until he shall have attained that age. 

§ 2. A student who shall not have jiursued the full course of 
study shall be entitled to a certificate stating the duration of 
his attendance and the degree of his attainment, to be signed 
by the Warden. 



RESOLUTIONS 



PROVIDING FOR A 



SCHOOL OF MEDICINE 

(Passed June 4, 1860.) 



Resolved, That the Board of Trustees of Columbia College 
hereby adopts the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the 
City of New York as the Medical School of Columbia College. 

Resolved, That the diplomas of the degree of Doctor of 
Medicine shall be conferred by the President of the College of 
Physicians and Surgeons, sitting with the President of Colum- 
bia College, and shall be signed by the Presidents of the 
respective colleges, and such others of the Faculty as may be 
designated, from time to time, by by-laws or resolutions of the 
College of Physicians and Surgeons, 

Resolved, That this connection shall be continued during the 
pleasure of the respective Boards of Trustees of the two col- 
leges, and may be determined by a vote of either Board, and 
notice thereof given to the other Board of Trustees. 



INDEX 



PAGE 

Absences to be reported 23 

Academic honors, how determined 27 

Admission, age of 21 

" requisitions for 22 

School of Law... 43 

School of Mines 35 

Attendance 23 

Board of Trustees 5 

Board of the College, how constituted 17 

" " " powers of 18 

" " " meetings of . 18 

" " " are to keep minutes 19 

Buildings to be under President's charge 16 

Classes of undergraduates, number and style 19 

" " studies of 19 

" in School of Mines 36 

' ' in School of Law 44 

College of Physicians and Surgeons, adopted as School of Medicine.. 46 

Combinations, unlawful, how to be treated 24 

Commencement, time of 28, 40 

" allotments of parts at 28,40 

" exercises at 28, 40 

' ' Committee on 29 

Course of study, outline of 19 

" " detailed plan to be published 26 

" in School of Mines 36 

" " in School of Law 44 

Dean of the School of Mines 35 

Deficiency, what is understood by . 25 

Deficient students, how to be treated 26, 38 

Degree of Master of Arts, how soon conferred 29 

" " " conditions required for 29 

Degrees, when conferred 28, 40, 45 

" may be forfeited, how 29 

" candidates for, must pay all dues 29 

" in School of Mines 40 

" in School of Law 45 



ii INDEX. 

PAGE 

Determination of standing 37, 38 

Diplomas must be paid for before delivery 29 

Discharges granted only with, consent of parent or guardian. .... . . 22 

Discipline in the College 24 

in the School of Mines 39 

" in the School of Law 42 

Dues to College to be paid before Degree is conferred 29 

Examinations, number of 25 

" how to be conducted 25 

" to be advertised 27 

invitations to be issued for 27 

in School of Mines 38 

" in School of Law 43,45 

Exercises may be suspended by the President 30 

Faculty of the College, how constituted 17 

" " " their powers and duties 18 

' ' of the School of Mines, how constituted 34 

" " " " powers of 34 

" " " " meetings of 35 

" " " " are to keep minutes 35 

of the School of Law 42 

" " " " powers of 42 

" '' . " " meetings of 42 

'' " " " are to keep minutes 42 

Failures at Recitation, to be reported 25 

Fees of undergraduates 22 

" of students in School of Mines 36, 39 

Foundations for scholarships 32 

" for professorships ... 32 

Graduates of the College may attend classes 22 

Grounds to be under President's supervision 16 

Historical sketch of Columbia College 7 

Holidays • • ■ 30 

Honors, Academic, how to be determined 27 

Hours of instruction 21 

Laws, copies of, to be delivered to students 23 

" " to be sent to parents 23 

Law School 41 

" President of • • 41 

Warden of 41 

Faculty of 42 

' ' admission to 43 

" discipline of 42 

Librarian, his duties . 30 



PAGE 

Librarian, shall report, annually 31 

Library, who shall have use of 31 

" shall be closed during vacation 31 

Masters of Arts, orations by, at Commencement 29 

Matriculation 22 

Merit roll, how constructed 27 

Mining School 34 

" President of : 34 

" Faculty of 34 

" instruction in 36 

" discipline of 39 

fees of 36, 39 

Physicians and Surgeons, College of, adopted as School of Medicine.. 46 

President of the College, his powers and duties 16 

" shall have casting vote in the Board 18 

" his concurrence necessary to acts of Faculties 18 

may suspend exercises 30 

Professors, reports to be made by 23, 25 

" to have no occupation interfering with College duties . . 19 

' ' time of, with the classes 21 

" shall not excuse classes from attendance 21 

Professorships, how they may be founded 32 

Punishments, sentences to be in writing 24 

Record to be kept of failures, want of preparation 25 

Reports, of President, to Trustees 16 

" " to parents 23 

" of Professors 23, 25 

" of Librarian. . . 30, 31 

Rolls of merit, how to be constructed 27 

Scholarships, free .... ... 31 

" " may be founded, how 32 

School of Law 41 

" President of 41 

" Warden of 41 

" Faculty of 42 

" discipline of 42 

" admission to 43 

School of Mines 34 

" President of 34 

" Dean of ■ 35 

" Faculty of 34 

" admission to 35 

" instruction in 36 

" discipline of 39 



PAGE 

School of Mines, fees of 36, 39 

School of Medicine 46 

Sketch, historical, of Columbia College 7 

Statutes of the College 16 

" " School of Mines 84 

" " School of Law 41 

Students, must matriculate before attending classes 32, 36 

" deficient, or partly deficient, how to be treated 25, 38 

Suspensions of exercises 30 

Tardiness — two instances of counted as one absence 23 

Text-Books, how to be selected 20 

Trustees of the College, names of 5 

Tuition fees, of undergraduates, when payable 22 

" of students in School of Mines 36 

Vacations 30, 44 

Want of preparation, to be recorded 25 

Warden, of School of Law, his duties 41 

" " " is to report 42 

" " " his concurrence necessary to acts of 

Faculty 42 



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